Re: [squid-users] Expires: vs. Cache-Control: max-age

On ons, 2008-10-01 at 15:42 +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> I.e., the max-age cache-control directive takes precedence over Expires.
> I've tested Squid and a number of other caches with Co-Advisor, and if
> Expires indicates the response is fresh, but CC: max-age says it's
> stale, it will treat it as stale, for just about any given cache.

Correct. Squid ignores Expires if there is a CC max-age response
directive.

See HttpReply::hdrExpirationTime() / httpReplyHdrExpirationTime().

Regards
Henrik